Through the Vicious Eyes of Love
"Through the Vicious Eyes of Love"
All is fair
in love and war
or so they say;
why so
as saints,
mothers
go through
the course of whore
to feel torn in two
journeying
through gates
that open
unleashed pain -
then, at the end
of the day,
before dreams,
we pray
in shades of
violetting blues
that such a dream
arrives heralded
as mortal
born in sin
in pristine royal halls
or blood soaked floors
flooding dirty family wars
become
alien and foreign,
the child
is taken in
by the accolades
of what is delivered
through the paged reams
of history
written by man, once more -
could not ever be
clearly viewed
through
the muddled mind’s
vicious hungry eyes of Love
blessed
as we all are
to see the lovely April
of thy primes
in thy mirrors
for what appears,
forever -
is just a short time,
a prelude
reflecting souls
expenditures
prophets
and their
losses
joy and sorrow
day and night
early, late
annointing
futures
dark, light
we are somehow
easily forgot
by the
sons
of Adam
by the
daughters
of Eve
pursuing
hushed secrets
buried beneath
the skirts of altars
dressed by men, with
their fanciful dreams,
their prophecies
their promises
hard driven
pulpits high
these men
ne’er so easily forgot
blinded by
readings and
lessons, missed -
life rouged
and painted over
through the
vicious eyes of love
forgetting
eternally
Woman
is true
God
(LadyLabyrinth / 2021)
gvlm
“Whispers”/Halsey
https://youtu.be/dK3OJ1grBg4
SONNET III
"Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest,
Now is the time that face should form another,
Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,
Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.
For where is she so fair whose uneared womb
Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
Or who is he so fond will be the tomb
Of his self-love, to stop posterity?
Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime;
So thou through windows of thine age shalt see,
Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time.
But if thou live rememb’red not to be,
Die single, and thine image dies with thee."
“Her Kind”/Anne Sexton
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42560/her-kind
Lyrics/”Whispers”, Halsey
https://stylecaster.com/whisper-halsey-lyrics/
Copyright © Lady Labyrinth | Year Posted 2021
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